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Bill· HRH.R. 160 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends Federal law to require that any budget submitted by the President not be in deficit. Provides that if the President determines that a balanced budget is not feasible, and submits written reasons in support of such determination, then the President may submit two budgets, one in compliance and one in deficit.
Bill· HRH.R. 136 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Paperwork Reduction in Health Care Act of 1993 - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to: (1) identify, inventory, and assess the Federal paperwork burden associated with health care services; and (2) establish a goal for reducing such burden in each of FY 1994 through 1997 by at least five percent of the preceding fiscal year's paperwork burden.
Bill· HRH.R. 84 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to direct the Administrator of General Services to prescribe regulations to ensure the participation (except in specified circumstances) of at least five historically Black colleges and universities and nonprofit organizations owned and controlled by Black Americans in research and development (R&D) activities conducted with Federal funds by executive agencies. Outlines the requirements to be imposed on executive agencies through such regulations, including the requirement that each such agency reserve a specified percentage of its FY 1994 through 1997 appropriations for R&D activities to be conducted by the Black colleges it must designate under this Act as federally funded R&D centers. Increases such set-aside on a graduated basis for such fiscal years. Requires each recipient of such set-aside to pay a specified percentage of it to the Parren J. Mitchell Institute for Business Education for entrepreneurial and capital formation programs. Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to the Congress annually on the activities of executive agencies in carrying out this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 75 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Title I: Amendment to Title 31, United States Code - Amends Federal law to require that any budget submitted by the President not be in deficit. Provides that if the President determines that a balanced budget is not feasible, and submits written reasons in support of such determination, then the President may submit two budgets, one in compliance and one in deficit. Title II: Amendment to Congressional Budget Act of 1974 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require that any budget submitted by the congressional Budget Committees not be in deficit. Provides that if either committee determines that it is infeasible to submit a balanced budget, then such committee may submit two budgets, one of which is in deficit, together with written reasons for such determination. Requires each concurrent resolution on the budget to contain reconciliation directives necessary to implement the resolution. Sets forth requirements for the Committee on Rules of the House of Representatives, if it reports any rule or order providing for the consideration of any concurrent resolution on the budget. Makes it always in order in the Senate to consider a budget resolution consisting of the text of a budget submitted by the President. Title III: Effective Date - Makes this Act effective for the concurrent resolution on the budget for FY 1995.
Bill· HRH.R. 10 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Reauthorization of Government Programs Title II: Program Inventory Title III: Program reexamination Title IV: Tax Expenditures Title V: Miscellaneous Sunset Act of 1993 - Title I: Reauthorization of Government Programs - Requires each Government program to be reauthorized at least once during each sunset reauthorization cycle. (Sunset reauthorization cycle means the period of five Congresses beginning with the 104th Congress and with each sixth Congress following the 104th Congress.) Exempts from the requirements of this Act specified items, such as interest on Federal debts, health care services, general retirement and disability payments, certain civil rights litigation activities, and specified retirement pay and benefits. Title II: Program Inventory - Directs the Comptroller General and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, in cooperation with the Director of the Congressional Research Service, to prepare an inventory of Federal programs to advise and assist the Congress in carrying out reauthorization and reexamination requirements and to link such reauthorization and review process with the budget process. Requires the Comptroller General to submit such program inventory to each House of Congress no later than January 1, 1994. Directs the congressional committees, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Congressional Research Service to review the program inventory and to suggest revisions. Requires that the program inventory be revised at the end of each session of the Congress and that such revisions be reported to each House. Title III: Program Reexamination - Requires each committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives to reexamine selected programs or groups of programs over which it has jurisdiction. Title IV: Tax Expenditures - Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to prepare an inventory of tax expenditure provisions and to submit a report on such inventory to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House and the Senate Finance Committee by July 1, 1994. Directs the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance to prepare a reauthorization schedule for all tax provisions similar to the schedule set out for Federal programs in title I of this Act. Title V: Miscellaneous - Sets forth miscellaneous provisions to carry out the purposes of this Act. Directs the President to submit to the Congress a Regulatory Duplication and Conflicts Report for all programs scheduled for reauthorization in the next Congress. Requires specified congressional committees to report on a review of the procedures established under this Act by December 31, 2000, and every five years thereafter. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2004.
Bill· HRH.R. 16 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Benefits and Eligibility Title II: Participation of Physicians, Dentists, Nurses, Hospitals, and Others Title III: Local Administration Title IV: State Administration Title V: National Health Insurance Board; National Advisory Medical Policy Council; General Administrative Provisions Title VI: Eligibility Determinations, Complaints, Hearings, and Judicial Review Title VII: Application of Act to Individuals Covered Under Medicare Program Title VIII: Fiscal Provisions Title IX: Miscellaneous Provisions Title X: Value Added Tax and National Health Care Trust Fund Title XI: Study and Development of Cost Control Mechanisms National Health Insurance Act - Title I: Benefits and Eligibility - (Sec. 101) Makes medical services available to eligible individuals. (Sec. 102) Authorizes the National Health Insurance Board to limit services when personnel, facilities, or funds are inadequate. (Sec. 103) Allows patient choice of physicians and hospitals. (Sec. 105) Makes Federal grants to States under the Social Security Act available to the States for services for uninsured needy individuals. Title II: Participation of Physicians, Dentists, Nurses, Hospitals, and Others - (Sec. 205) Authorizes State agreements with individuals or organizations for service provision. (Sec. 208) Regulates payment bases and rates, requiring local adjustments. (Sec. 210) Allows providers to choose their practice locality and, consistent with State law and professional ethics, reject patients. Title III: Local Administration - (Sec. 301) Decentralizes administration to local administrative committees or officers. (Sec. 303) Requires establishment in each health service area of a local area committee and local professional committees. Title IV: State Administration - (Sec. 401) Expresses the intent of the Congress that benefit provisions be administered by each State. Provides for Board administration if State plans are not approved and complied with. Title V: National Health Insurance Board; National Advisory Medical Policy Council; General Administrative Provisions - (Sec. 501) Establishes: (1) in the Department of Health and Human Services the National Health Insurance Board; (2) the National Advisory Medical Policy Council. Title VI: Eligibility Determinations, Complaints, Hearings, and Judicial Review - (Sec. 601) Requires that the Secretary of Health and Human Services determine benefit eligibility. (Sec. 602) Describes complaint investigation procedures. Title VII: Application of Act to Individuals Covered Under Medicare Program - (Sec. 701) Limits, for individuals entitled to benefits under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, benefits under this Act to services for which the individual is not eligible under Medicare. (Sec. 702) Mandates a study of the relationship of this Act's program and Medicare. Title VIII: Fiscal Provisions - (Sec. 801) Makes National Health Care Trust Fund amounts available for expenditures under this Act. (Sec. 802) Directs the Board to determine amounts to be made available from the Fund and allotments to the States. (Sec. 803) Authorizes grants to: (1) educational institutions regarding the training of personnel providing or administering benefits; and (2) individuals in courses regarding the provision or administration of benefits. Requires that funds be made available. Title IX: Miscellaneous Provisions - (Sec. 902) Requires that benefits first become available on a specified date. Title X: Value Added Tax and National Health Care Trust Fund - (Sec. 1001) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on each taxable transaction (the sale of property, performance of services, and importing of property by a taxable person in a commercial-type transaction). Sets the tax rate at zero for: (1) retail food, principal residence housing (sale and rental), and medical care; (2) certain transactions involving governmental entities; and (3) certain tax-exempt organizations. Makes the person selling the property or services liable for the tax. (Sec. 1002) Establishes the National Health Care Trust Fund. Appropriates to the Fund amounts received from the value added tax. Allows the Fund to be used only to carry out the program under this Act. Title XI: Study and Development of Cost Control Mechanisms - (Sec. 1101) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) conduct a study on controlling benefit costs, including malpractice claims and malpractice insurance costs; (2) report to the Congress; and (3) implement the report's recommendations.
Bill· HRH.R. 92 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Comprehensive Restructuring Title II: General Education Provisions Act Amendments Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions Neighborhood Schools Improvement Act - Title I: Comprehensive Restructuring - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to establish a restructuring program consisting of: (1) national education standards and assessment; (2) neighborhood schools improvement; and (3) a flexibility demonstration program. National Education Standards and Assessment Act of 1993 - Establishes a National Education Goals Panel (the Panel) to: (1) support development of voluntary national education content and school delivery standards through grants to specified consortia; (2) review and certify such standards; (3) issue an annual national report card; and (4) make recommendations to the Secretary of Education on research on authentic assessment which the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) should undertake. Directs the Secretary, through the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), to evaluate such standards and research as well as model assessments for national content standards for mathematics. Authorizes appropriations. Neighborhood Schools Improvement Act - Establishes a neighborhood schools improvement program of five-year, renewable grants for State and local educational system changes. Requires assisted States to establish panels to develop statewide reform plans. Requires local educational agencies (LEAs) which desire to receive program subgrants to establish committees to develop local plans. Authorizes appropriations. Flexibility for Educational Effectiveness Act of 1993 - Establishes a flexibility demonstration program to promote flexibility in delivery of education and other services to disadvantaged children. Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain statutory or regulatory requirements for up to ten States which have implemented comprehensive regulatory reform plans involving up to 20 LEAs and 75 schools in each such State. Authorizes other Federal agencies to enter into agreements with the Secretary to grant similar waivers of regulatory requirements for elementary, secondary, or youth vocational training programs they administer. Authorizes eligible States to request such waivers, with certain restrictions, for specified programs serving the disadvantaged under: (1) preschool, elementary, and secondary education, and youth vocational training programs; (2) social, health, and nutrition programs; and (3) national school lunch and child nutrition programs. Directs the Secretary to contract with the National Academy of Education for an evaluation of such demonstration projects. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to establish a National Board on Workforce Skills. Directs the Secretary, through a grant or contract with NAS, to: (1) identify workplace readiness skills that all students should have upon completion of high school; (2) research and recommend ways of integrating them into school-based learning; and (3) propose methods to update them as the economy's requirements change. Directs NAS to work with the National Education Goals Panel and the groups and organizations authorized to develop national content and school delivery standards to include workplace readiness skills in such standards. Authorizes appropriations. Amends ESEA provisions for Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education national program funds to authorize the Secretary to make grants to various entities to support development of model assessments tied to the voluntary national content standards for mathematics. Title II: General Education Provisions Act Amendments - Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to extend through FY 1994 the authorization of appropriations for: (1) the National Center for Education Statistics; and (2) the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP). Requires the NAEP to conduct in 1994 trial assessments of mathematics and reading for certain grades and to develop for administration in 1994 trial assessments of mathematics, reading, and science for certain other public and private school grades, in States that wish to participate. Directs the Secretary to provide for a study and report to the Congress on: (1) the process whereby the National Assessment Governing Board sets certain achievement goals; and (2) the ability of NAEP to maintain valid data with respect to trends in student performance. Revises GEPA with respect to State responsibility to furnish information concerning uses of Federal funds. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act to allow the Commissioner for Education Statistics to authorize a State education agency (SEA) or a consortium of SEAs to use items and data from NAEP to evaluate a course of study, upon the Commissioner's determination that such use will not have specified prohibited results or other prohibited uses. Limits such authorizations to one in any fiscal year. Requires the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee to include information on postsecondary employment and training programs in the occupational information system. Requires State boards of education to develop a data collection system (to provide data on graduation or completion rates, job placement rates from occupationally specific programs, and licensing rates) whose results can be integrated into the occupational information system. Amends the National Education Commission on Time and Learning Act (title I) of the Education Council Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-62) to extend the Commission's authorization of appropriations through FY 1995.
Bill· HRH.R. 30 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Universal Access to Health Coverage Title II: Medical and Health Insurance Information Reform Title III: MEWA Enforcement Improvements Universal Health Benefits Empowerment and Partnership Act of 1993 - Title I: Universal Access to Health Coverage - (Sec. 101) Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide for universal coverage under group health plans and statewide accessible (or State-based) health benefits systems. Requires employers to offer coverage for eligible individuals under basic group health plans or group health payroll deduction plans. Sets forth requirements for statewide accessible health benefit systems, including reporting, participation, benefits, contribution, reciprocity, and coverage. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to prescribe regulations for such systems. Provides for coverage by such systems of uninsurable risks and preexisting conditions. (Sec. 102) Allows States to establish certain State-based systems in the absence of statewide access to coverage. Provides for recognition of certain substitute basic health benefits systems. Directs the Secretary of HHS to establish a program of grants to statewide accessible health benefits systems. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 103) Declares that such statewide accessible or substitute systems satisfy certain continuation coverage requirements under ERISA and related laws. (Sec. 104) Preempts State laws which mandate certain health benefits or restrict managed medical care under employee welfare benefit plans. (Sec. 105) Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to remove certain restrictions on the tax-exempt status of multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs) providing basic health benefits. (Sec. 106) Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) with respect to the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and the Office of the Forum for Quality and Effectiveness in Health Care. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 107) Establishes a Federal Advisory Council on Health Care Coverage and Costs. Requires the Council to study and report to the Secretary of HHS on how practice guidelines may be used in reducing medical malpractice costs. (Sec. 108) Amends the IRC to increase the deduction for health insurance costs of self-employed individuals from 25 percent through 1995 to 50 percent in 1996 and 1997 and to 100 percent in 1998 and thereafter. Title II: Medical and Health Insurance Information Reform - Medical and Health Insurance Information Reform Act of 1993 - (Sec. 202) Amends the Social Security Act to require the Secretary to determine whether each State is developing and implementing a health care value information program that meets specified criteria and, if it has not developed or implemented such a program, take necessary action to implement a comparable program in such State. Requires Federal agency heads responsible for providing health insurance or health care services to individuals to develop health care value information about their programs comparing them with State program data. Requires the Secretary to promulgate requirements for the periodic submission by insurers of health care data relevant to health care Services research. Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to make all Medicare claim records available under the Freedom of Information Act, without regard to the consent of the physician or other item or service furnisher. Requires the Secretary to develop model systems to facilitate the gathering and analysis of health care cost, quality, and outcomes data. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to each State for the development and implementation of its health care value information program. Authorizes appropriations. Preempts State laws which require medical or health insurance records to be maintained in written, rather than electronic form. Requires the Secretary to promulgate: (1) requirements concerning health insurance information privacy and confidentiality protection for individuals; (2) standards and requirements concerning the electronic receipt and transmission of certain health insurance information if there are problems receiving and transmitting it which cause significant administrative costs; and (3) requirements for the format and content of basic health insurance claim forms. Requires the Secretary to publish recommendations for the types and format of information used by insurers if requests for it by insurers cause administrative costs disproportionate to the benefits derived. Requires the Secretary to: (1) promulgate rules for determining the liability of insurers when benefits are payable under two or more health insurance plans; and (2) promulgate requirements for the furnishing of health insurance information among insurers if there are problems relating to its availability which cause significant mistaken benefit payments or administrative costs. Requires the Secretary to determine if each State has in effect standards, requirements, and rules substantially the same as those under this Act for insurers relating to health insurance information privacy and confidentiality protection, identification numbers, the receipt and transmission of health insurance information, health insurance claim forms, liability, and the furnishing of health insurance information among insurers. Applies such standards, requirements, and rules to activities of insurers in the State if the State does not have them. Requires the Secretary to: (1) determine if the State maintains an effective enforcement mechanism for State requirements; and (2) promulgate requirements for hospitals and other providers concerning electronic medical data. Sets forth requirements for hospitals which participate in Medicare. Allows Federal agency heads to require any provider required to transmit certain data elements to transmit them electronically and present them in the manner prescribed under this Act. (Sec. 204) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on: (1) insurers and administrators of self-insured employee plans who fail to comply with the standards, requirements, and rules established under this Act; and (2) insurers who fail to submit to the Secretary certain health care data for health care research purposes. Title III: MEWA Enforcement Improvements - Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements Enforcement Improvements Act of 1993 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) with respect to multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs) and other employee welfare benefit plans. (Sec. 302) Revises the definition of employee welfare benefit plan to: (1) allow up to five percent of the aggregate number of covered individuals to be individuals who are not employees or former employees of the employer (or members or former members of the employee organization) which established or maintains the plan; and (2) include a plan, fund, or program established or maintained by a franchise network or by two or more trades or businesses that are within the same control group or were within it at any time during the preceding one-year period. (Sec.303) Amends the definition of MEWA to: (1) limit the exclusion of collective bargaining agreements, under specified conditions; (2) exclude franchise networks; (3) exclude insurers, or health maintenance organizations licensed to do business in a State; (4) exclude trades and businesses within the same control group at any time during the preceding one-year period (as well as those currently in the same group), by deeming them a single employer; and (5) provide that single plans shall not be deemed MEWAs solely because they cover individuals who are not employees or former employees, or their beneficiaries, if the number of such individuals never exceeds five percent of the aggregate covered during the plan year. (Sec. 304) Makes ERISA title I (Protection of Employee Benefit Rights) applicable to any MEWA engaged in commerce or in any industry or activity affecting commerce, with specified exceptions. (Sec. 305) Requires MEWAs which provide medical care benefits to file annual registration statements with the Secretary of Labor. (Sec. 306) Authorizes the Secretary, to assess a civil penalty for a trustee's or other responsible person's failure or refusal to file such registration statement. Authorizes district courts to order the MEWA to cease activities and to grant additional equitable or remedial relief. (Sec. 307) Sets forth MEWA exemption and exclusion procedures. (Sec. 308) Provides that States may require disclosure of information from any employee welfare benefit plan (in connection with certain investigations) as to whether such plan is a MEWA or is in compliance with the MEWA exemption or 18-month exclusion.
Bill· HRH.R. 148 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Judicial Taxation Prohibition Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal judicial code to deny to inferior Federal courts jurisdiction to issue any remedy, order, writ, or other judicial decree requiring the Federal Government or any State or local government to impose any new tax or to increase any existing tax or tax rate.
Bill· HRH.R. 145 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Directs the Comptroller General to conduct an annual fiscal year audit of: (1) the Federal Reserve Board; (2) the Federal Advisory Council; (3) the Federal Open Market Committee; and (4) all Federal Reserve banks and branches, including transactions of the system open market account conducted through recognized dealers. Requires the Comptroller General to report the audit results to the Congress and to submit copies to: (1) the President; (2) the Federal Reserve Board; and (3) the Federal Reserve banks.
Bill· HRH.R. 171 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate the authority for individuals to designate income tax payments to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund. Allows individual taxpayers to designate a portion of any tax overpayment (not less than one dollar) and to make cash contributions with their tax returns to reduce the public debt. Allows individuals who do not itemize deductions a deduction for contributions to reduce the public debt.
Bill· HRH.R. 164 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce from: (1) $1,000 to $500 the limitation on contributions by persons other than multicandidate political committees to any candidate for Federal office; and (2) $5,000 to $500 the limitation on contributions by such committees to any such candidate. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide tax credits for contributors to candidates for public office equal to 50 percent of the annual total of a contributor's political contributions. Limits tax credits to an annual total of $125 and $250 respectively for individual and joint contributors. Disallows such tax credits to estates and trusts.
Bill· HRH.R. 153 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to apply the special rule for principal campaign committees on graduated tax rates to candidates for any Federal, State, or local elective public office. (Currently, such rule applies only to congressional candidates.)
Bill· HRH.R. 151 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the individual and corporate capital gains rate from 28 percent and 34 percent to 15 percent. Reduces the minimum tax rate accordingly. Reduces such tax to 7.5 percent for low- and middle-income taxpayers. Requires indexing, based on the gross national product deflator, of the adjusted basis of certain assets (corporate stock and tangible property that is a capital asset of property used in a trade or business) that have been held for more than one year at the time of sale or other transfer, solely for the purpose of determining gain or loss. Provides for indexing the limitation on capital losses of noncorporate taxpayers.
Bill· HRH.R. 124 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide employers with a 50 percent tax credit for English language education expenses incurred on behalf of employees working in the United States or its possessions. Prohibits the deduction of such expenses if such credit is taken.
Bill· HRH.R. 127 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Employee Educational Assistance Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the income tax exclusion of amounts paid under employee educational assistance programs.
Bill· HRH.R. 113 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Buy American Motor Vehicles Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit, for an individual who purchases a new domestic passenger vehicle, of: (1) 15 percent of the purchase price, in the case of a vehicle purchased in 1993; and (2) 7.5 percent, in the case of a vehicle purchased in 1994. Limits the credit to $2,000 in 1993 and $1,000 after such year. Allows an individual qualifying for such credit, at the time of such purchase, to assign the right to the credit to the retail dealer in exchange for a price reduction of equal value. Allows the retailer dealer to assign such right to the manufacturer of the vehicle. Allows manufacturers to use such credit against their tax liability. Defines a domestic parts manufacturer as one with manufacturing facilities within the United States or Canada and who is not Japanese or Japanese-affiliated.
Bill· HRH.R. 106 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code that include unemployment compensation in the gross income of an individual and require information reporting with respect to such compensation.
Bill· HRH.R. 104 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Investment Incentives Title II: Accounting Provisions Small Business Investment Act of 1993 - Title I: Investment Incentives - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the dollar limitation on the election to expense certain depreciable business assets. Allows the expensing of certain start-up costs of small businesses. Allows certain adjustments and preferences to not be taken into account in computing the alternative minimum tax for qualified small business activities. Increases the allowable number of shareholders for small business corporations. Title II: Accounting Provisions - Allows an eligible small business to elect to use the inflation-adjusted first-in, first-out inventory method of valuing its inventories. Exempts certain small businesses from the uniform capitalization rules and the special rules for long-term contracts.
Bill· HRH.R. 94 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Repeals specified portions of the Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1992 (Public Law 102-318) which: (1) provide for optional trustee-to-trustee transfers of eligible rollover distributions; and (2) impose a withholding tax on distributions not so transferred. Requires the Internal Revenue Code to be applied and administered as if such provisions (and the amendments made by such provisions) had not been enacted.
Bill· HRH.R. 86 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for contributions to candidates for congressional offices for the State of which the taxpayer is a resident. Limits such contribution to $100 ($200 in the case of a joint return). Disallows such credit for an estate or trust.
Bill· HRH.R. 81 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Hunger Emergency Assistance and Relief Trust Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals to designate on their income tax returns a contribution of all or part of their tax refund to the Hunger Emergency Assistance and Relief Trust. Establishes in the Treasury the Hunger Emergency Assistance and Relief Trust (trust fund) to distribute hunger relief funds to qualified nonprofit hunger relief services organizations. Describes standards and procedures for the distribution of trust fund monies. Specifies a number of restrictions with respect to the activities of recipient organizations, including limitations on administrative expenses. Requires the Hunger Commission to submit to specified congressional committees an annual report detailing trust fund expenditures. Establishes a Hunger Commission to administer the distribution of funds to qualified hunger relief services organizations on a matching grant basis. Permits a maximum award of $100,000 to any single qualified organization in any fiscal year. Requires that: (1) at least 50 percent of amounts received into the trust fund in any year be paid to qualified organizations; and (2) monies in the trust fund be distributed within 180 days of their receipt. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 82 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for interest on any indebtedness incurred to pay the educational expenses of the taxpayer, spouse, or dependent. Allows such deduction only for the first 48 months of loan repayment.
Bill· HRH.R. 61 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers to designate on their tax returns a portion of any overpayment (not less than one dollar) to reduce the public debt.
Bill· HRH.R. 53 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a 30 percent income tax deduction for the net capital gain of both corporate and noncorporate taxpayers.
Bill· HRH.R. 71 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a business tax credit for employers of members of the Ready Reserve or National Guard absent from work on active duty. Limits such credit to $2,000 with respect to any one Ready Reserve-National Guard employee.
Bill· HRH.R. 60 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a first-time homebuyer who purchases a principal residence a tax credit of ten percent of the purchase price of such residence. Requires such residence to be purchased during the one-year period after the date of enactment of this Act. Limits the credit to $2,500.
Bill· HRH.R. 49 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Home Sale Tax Fairness Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require gain recognized on the sale or exchange after December 31, 1993, of a principal residence to be reduced by the aggregate losses sustained on the sale or exchange, after the date of enactment of this Act, of prior principal residences of such individual which were not allowed as a deduction and which were not previously taken into account.
Bill· HRH.R. 52 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount of foreign earned income which a U.S. resident living abroad may exclude from gross income and provides an inflation adjustment for such amount.
Bill· HRH.R. 48 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Inflation Tax Relief Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require indexing, based on the gross national product deflator, of the adjusted basis of certain assets (corporate stock and tangible property that is a capital asset of property used in a trade or business) that have been held for more than one year at the time of sale or other transfer, solely for the purpose of determining gain or loss.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 57 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits fiscal year expenditures from exceeding revenues and from exceeding 20 percent of the gross national product, except in cases of national emergency determined by a three-fifths vote of each House of the Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 54 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress and the President, prior to each fiscal year, to agree on an estimate of total receipts for that fiscal year by enactment of a law devoted solely to that subject. Prohibits outlays for that year from exceeding this amount unless the Congress, by a three-fifths roll call vote of each House, authorizes a specific excess of outlays over receipts. Requires a two-thirds roll call vote of each House to increase the public debt. Directs the President to submit a balanced budget to the Congress. Requires a two-thirds roll call vote of the total membership of each House before any bill to increase revenue may become law. Waives these provisions when a declaration of war is in effect. Grants the President the authority to disapprove any appropriation or provision and approval any other appropriation or provision in the same appropriation bill.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 49 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress, prior to each fiscal year, to adopt a statement in which total Federal outlays do not exceed total receipts, unless a three-fifths vote of both Houses authorizes a specific excess. Limits the rate of increase in receipts in the statement to that of the increase in national income in the previous calendar year, unless law is enacted solely to approve specific additional receipts. Directs the President to submit a balanced budget. Authorizes waiver of these provisions in time of war. Sets a permanent limit on the amount of Federal public debt, prohibiting any increase unless legislation enacted by a three-fifths majority of both Houses become law.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 56 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits fiscal year Federal expenditures from exceeding revenues, except during any national emergency declared by a three-fifths vote of the Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 17 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress, prior to each fiscal year, to adopt a statement in which total Federal outlays (except those for repayment of debt principal) do not exceed total receipts (except those derived from borrowing), unless a three-fifths vote of each House authorizes a specific excess. Limits the rate of increase in receipts in the statement to that of the increase in national income in the previous calendar year, unless a law is enacted solely to approve specific additional receipts. Authorizes a suspension of these provisions for any fiscal year in which the Congress has declared war.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 24 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress and the President, prior to each fiscal year, to agree on an estimate of total receipts (except those derived from borrowing) for that fiscal year by enactment of a joint single subject resolution. Prohibits outlays for that year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding this amount unless the Congress, by a three-fifths roll call vote of each House, authorizes a specific excess of outlays over receipts. Requires the Congress, whenever actual outlays exceed actual receipts for any fiscal year, to provide by law for the repayment of the excess in the ensuing fiscal year. Requires a three-fifths roll call vote of each House to increase the public debt. Directs the President to submit a balanced budget to the Congress. Requires the approval of a majority of the total membership of each House by roll call vote before any bill to increase revenue may become law. Waives these provisions when a declaration of war is in effect.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 9 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress, prior to each fiscal year, to adopt a statement in which total Federal outlays do not exceed total receipts, unless a three-fifths vote of both Houses authorizes a specific excess. Limits the rate of increase in receipts in the statement to that of the increase in national income in the previous calendar year, unless law is enacted solely to approve specific additional receipts. Directs the President to submit a balanced budget. Authorizes waiver of these provisions in time of war. Sets a permanent limit on the amount of Federal public debt, prohibiting any increase unless legislation enacted by a three-fifths majority of both Houses become law.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 2 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits in any fiscal year total Federal outlays from exceeding total receipts, unless a three-fifths roll call vote of both Houses authorizes a specific excess. Prohibits any increase in the public debt unless a three-fifths roll call vote of both Houses of the Congress enacts legislation permitting otherwise. Directs the President to submit a balanced budget to the Congress. Permits any revenue-increasing bill to become law only if approved by a majority of the whole number of each House of Congress by roll call vote. Waives these provisions when a declaration of war is in effect.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 19 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the Congress from authorizing the withdrawal of funds from the Treasury during a fiscal year in excess of fiscal year revenues (except those derived from borrowing), determined in accordance with estimates the President must determine and announce as soon as practicable after the end of each calendar year and revise at least quarterly. Directs the President to submit to the Congress a proposed budget that meets this same balanced budget standard. Authorizes a waiver of these provisions in time of war or national emergency.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 29 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Federal excise tax rates should not be increased.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 17 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that revenues resulting from the imposition of, or any change in, any tax or fee should be applied to reducing the public debt.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 14 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Federal laws regarding the taxation of State and local government bonds should not be changed in order to increase Federal revenues.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 6 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Declares that the Congress opposes any attempt to lower the estate tax exemption or raise the effective rate of taxes on estates because such measures contradict the fundamental goal of the United States Government of encouraging long-term private saving through which productive investment that promotes economic growth can be realized.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 10 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Expresses the sense of the Congress that tax legislation should not take effect earlier than 90 days after implementing regulations are issued by the Internal Revenue Service.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 7 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the current Federal income tax deduction for interest paid on debt secured by a first or second home should not be further restricted.